Figurative Language and Sound Devices

1. Figurative Language and Sound Devices 8th grade language arts

2. SIMILE A direct comparison between two basically different things. A simile is introduced by the words “like” or “as”.

3. SIMILE My love is like a red, red rose.

4. METAPHOR An implied comparison between two basically different things and is not introduced with the words “like” or “as”.

5. METAPHOR The eyes were daggers that cut right through me.

6. HYPERBOLE A great exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling.

7. Hyperbole He was so hungry he could have eaten a horse.

8. HYPERBOLE I will love you until all the seas go dry.

9. PERSONIFICATION Human characteristics are given to non-human animals, objects, or ideas.

10. PERSONIFICATION My stereo walked out of my car.

11. IMAGERY The use of sensory details that appeal to the five senses.

12. IMAGERY Cold, wet leaves floating on moss-colored water.

13. Onomatopoeia A figure of speech which suggests or imitates the sound of what it describes.

14. Onomatopoeia Boom! Crash!

15. Oxymoron A pair of words consisting of two seemingly contradictory terms.

16. Oxymoron Jumbo Shrimp

17. REPETITION The repeating of a sound, word, phrase, or more in a given literary work.

18. REPETITION “I sprang to the stirrup, and Jarvis, and he; I galloped, Derrick galloped, we galloped all three”

19. ALLITERATION The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

20. ALLITERATION “Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship” “. . .that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.”

21. CONSONANCE The repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel sounds. The consonants are not at the beginning of the word.

22. CONSONANCE “Wherever we go Silence will fall like dews”